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MichMan

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6. Why aren't the states still paying 65% Even Blue ones?

Reply to ariadne0614 (Original post)

Fri Jun 17, 2022, 08:16 PM

Jun 2022

According to the article students are now paying 80% of the cost.

Reagan has been gone for 35 yrs now. Why did states, especially blue ones, quit funding higher education? It isn't because of anything Reagan did in the 80's.

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